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9 Easy Ways to Skyrocket Your Online Sales
Article Title: 9 Easy Ways to Skyrocket Your Online Sales Author Name: Leva Duell Copyright: � 2003 Email: webmaster@profitablewebstrategies.com URL: http://www.profitablewebstrategies.com/skyrocket.htm Word Count: 619 words Category: Internet Marketing, Online Marketing, Web Design, Internet, Business, Marketing Reprint Instructions: This article may be reprinted freely with bylines and URL.
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Most businesses fail to plan for online success. Knowing your purpose, audience, and uniqueness are the first steps to developing a successful web site. Follow these three steps to position your web site for Internet profits. Step 1: Determine Your Purpose The first step in planning a web site is to determine what you want to accomplish.
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A professional-looking web site goes a long way to establishing you and your product as legitimate and trustworthy. It doesn't have to be fancy (shouldn't be, actually), but a nice, clean design is essential.1. Keep the design simple. Period!2. Maintain a consistent style throughout so visitors always know they're on the same site.
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Ever since I've been doing SEO work, I've always griped and complained about FrontPage and all the extraneous code it puts in the <head> section of the page, etc.Then recently, I had the opportunity to visit with a group of advanced search engine optimizers, and I was shocked to find that many of them use FrontPage and love it.
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John Deere tractors are painted green - so are encoders produced by Gurley Precision, rental equipment from Sunbelt, and metering pumps from Pulsafeeder. Many manufacturers report that they sell more products when they are painted green. Why? How could this trend impact the Internet Design Industry?Green has a long symbolic history.
Why do we (web developers) use tables??? Yes they make for fantastic designs and organized websites but they are not for this purpose. A table should be used for TABULAR DATA not design and layout. That being said, I have sworn off tables and replaced them with the almighty div tag and CSS.
In the good old days you had no option but to use tables if you wanted to give an impressive presentation on your website. Along came CSS a designer's best friend. There is no web layout that you can create with a table that can not be duplicated with CSS.
"But using CSS to design my website is too complicated" I have heard this to many times in the span of my career. You can learn how to properly use CSS in less time than it took you to figure out how to nest a table inside of table, inside of table... In future articles I will explain how to properly use CSS, for now we will stick with why you should use CSS.
Content and Design should always be separated. We have all heard this a million times but why do we not listen. The benefits to building a website following this method are proven.
1. Search Engines: I have redesigned many websites eliminating tables and placing all links in unordered lists and have seen there search engine rankings improve drastically.
2. Compatibility: Remember that in today's day and age websites are being viewed on everything from 60 inch plasma TV's to 3 inch cell phone screens. If you assign a table a width of 780 it becomes near impossible for visitor using a handheld device to view your website.
3. Accessibility: People with disabilities have the right to enjoy the web! If your website uses tables a visitor using an audio browser is going to have trouble accessing your website. Go ahead and try to use your website with and audio browser...
I hope this article gets you started on your way to becoming a Web Standards Developer. There are a million reasons to "Do it the right way" and these were just a few, for more information visit the w3.org.
About the Author
John Harris is the CDO (Chief Design Officer) and a founding member of Appeal Web Design
http://www.appealwebdesign.com
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